Proceedings of the Third ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing

Welcome to the Third ACM Symposium of Cloud Computing (SoCC'12). This annual symposium is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and the ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). Both these communities share a common interest in the rapidly developing field of Cloud Computing, i.e., large scale distributed systems that can manage massive volumes of data and yet deliver reliable and efficient service. As a result, they co-sponsor this symposium with active participation and shared responsibilities from both the communities. In its first year, SoCC was held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD, the flagship conference of the database community. In the second year, SoCC was held in conjunction with ACM SOSP, the premier conference for operating systems. The goal for co-location was to facilitate effective networking across the two communities, and the symposium was successfully born. This year's edition is being held, for the first time, as an independent event. This year SoCC is being hosted in San Jose, California, a.k.a. Silicon Valley, due to the high level of industrial activity there in the Cloud Computing arena.